Chiefs fans want a shot at loudest crowd record

Posted by Josh Alper on July 17, 2013, 9:11 AM EST

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Seahawks fans will try to set a Guinness world record for the loudest crowd at a sporting event when the team hosts the 49ers on September 15, but their bid may not wind up being the only one at an NFL stadium this year.

A group of Chiefs fans started a Facebook group called “Terrorhead Returns” to rally support for Guinness to monitor the level of crowd noise at a Chiefs game during the 2013 season. The group aims “to re-affirm and establish our long known history” of loud crowds at Arrowhead Stadium.

As the Kansas City Star points out, an attempt at Arrowhead would come with more than 12,000 additional voices in the mix than the Seahawks can muster at CenturyLink Field if the stadium is full. There’s no date set at this point for an attempt, although the Chiefs fan group reports that Guinness has received their application and notified the group that it passes muster for the first phase of the acceptance process. It will be a few weeks before they learn whether there will be an official attempt at the record.

The current record belongs to a crowd at a Turkish soccer game, which reached 131.76 decibels during a game. That stadium is considerably smaller than CenturyLink Field, which would seem to offer the NFL fanbases a good shot at the record if they can rally every available voice to their cause.

Arrowhead has already been measured at 116 decibels and unlike some other stadiums it was directly attributed to the fans, not speakers… To be fair if Arrowhead is given a shot it should also be on opening day against the Cowboys.

With all due respect to Chiefs fans….Arrowhead stadium doesn’t have anything on Quest Field. I’m a 49ers fan and former Air Force guy who attended a Seahawks/49ers game once and Quest field is ungodly loud…like inconceivably loud….louder than being on a tarmac when jets are taking off loud. I just don’t see Arrowhead getting even close to that level. But I know Chiefs fans ARE passionate!

Unlike Kansas City, Seattle has no problem supplementing any needed crowd noise through the public address system when necessary. Does anyone think those latte drinkers actually generate that on their own? The old stadiums resonate in a way the new ones simply can’t.

I’d like to know what the numbers were for the Silverdome. I’m surprised that isn’t the record holder. 80,000 PLUS in a tight closed stadium. Wow, that was one deafening place. I’d like to know the data for that stadium and how close it must have come.

Soooooo… The NFL has checked and investigated multiple times about any artificial crowd noise in century link and have never ever been able to find any.

They don’t use speakers, they have a roudy college type atmosphere at the stadium, we all love our teams, but don’t spread lies please. If you aren’t yelling, other fans will say something a lot of times, the fans rightfully or wrongly truly believe the 12th man helps the team and it’s your job to try to disrupt the offense.

And BTW, have you ever heard of ” BEAST QUAKE” That was Marshawns run in the playoffs against the defending champion Saints.

CAUSED A MINOR EARTHQUAKE hence Beast QUAKE, registered at 133.2 at according to the university of washington.
The faithful chiefs man may or more bot break it, every team has its advantages, either flat or funneled air, or humidity, doesn’t matter. But to wrongly call in speakers is Rediculous and any word of that makes you a moron.

BTW the television caught the Redskins pumping in crowd noise against the seahawks in the playoffs. Why weren’t they punished, that was caught by the tv, go and check. That’s sad.

I am a HUGE COWBOYS and I have been to Century Link and see the Boys vs Hawks… Let me tell you, there are no extra speakers to funnel in crowd noise… That place is OUT AND OUT LOUD AS HELL!!! I think that they will be able to set the world record with no problem..

The Chiefs’ fans are very passionate and I saw them actually help the team win a dismal rainy game one night in KC against the Raiders a few years ago. You could barely see in front of you with the rain but the stadium was packed to the gills. I gained respect for Chiefs fans that night.

This might be the dumbest thing I have seen in awhile. Who can scream at the top of their lungs the loudest? What a noteworthy achievement.

Seattle fans are hilarious. They are so in love with themselves over the 12th man thing it’s just awesome to watch as a visitor. They raise a 12 flag before the game, and there are people with number 12 jerseys that say FAN on the back, a lot of them! Then they stroke themselves on the scoreboard with false start standings. “Hey everyone, we can scream really loud!”